Major Announcement: CanYa.io acquires Bountysource.comJust saw this on BountySource's website. Honestly, it's kind of depressing to think that a simple service such as this wasn't able to turn enough of a profit to sustain itself. That it had to be bought out by some stupid blockchain company and a bunch of beard-twirling venture capitalists is doubly depressing.

CanYa has acquired the majority stake in the online P2P software platform Bountysource and its 46,000 users

CanYa has again raised the bar for ICOs following a major acquisition of Bountysource and its passionate 46,000 open-source developer community. In a world where most ICOs (and traded cryptocurrencies) have no product or user-base, this move is unprecedented.

Fuck you CanYa for shoehorning your crappy blockchain and digital tokens into a perfectly good platform for paying out to FOSS projects. Fuck your callous press releases, your heartless emphasis on technologies that don't solve anything, and your shitty altcoin that no one needs. Thanks for forcing it on a bunch of people who weren't really all that affected by any of the problems you aim to solve.

At this point, it may make more sense for the Hubzilla project to eventually use their own commerce system for community donations, to replicate the very functionality that we were using BountySource for.

As I used webpage recently, Can I share remarks. Ergonomy remarks or non logic. You clic create but the button create is still here. If you clic a second time you can loose your work. And other remarks.

For newcomers: You can also use the BBcode syntax [baseurl]/path/to/hub/link and the baseurl tag will render as the domain name of the hub displaying the content. It's one of the "identity-aware" tags. Sometimes the link might fail if for example the help pages have changed between versions and the observer's hub is running a different version, but it's useful for sharing links to channel settings and things like that ( e.g. https://hub.transition-regensburg.de/settings ).

A global community from 30 countries calls for open sharing of scientific hardware Over 100 researchers, engineers, educators, entrepreneurs and community organizers from 30 countries have published a report describing the steps for providing global…

I agree the site could be better in terms of freedom, though I only see two links to twitter and flickr. I also understand their work depends on communicating to a certain public which is prominently on twitter, so I'm not surprised or disappointed. But the proprietary pdf reader is really silly, indeed.

What is disappointing is that they have no links to any of the free networks. I might write them about that.

(I've just been on their mobile page, might look different from the desktop version)

...I'll bet that you'll find most of the open hardware/software ppl in networks that suit their values.irc, xmpp, email lists, matrix, diaspora, mastodon...But they even didn't care to just link to any of those places.Keeping in mind that they even used a proprietary pdf reader makes me wonder very much about their intention. If it would be some other topic I propably would think a bit different....but they claim.to be devs that plan to move open accsess forward but they even don't care about it to much at their webpage. Guess writing them might be good.

First, most open hardware people, and even most free software people I'll say, are (still) on twitter/facebook, not on the free social networks. That's just how things are. Even if you count only hackerspaces - letting aside makerspaces, fablabs and whatnot where free networks aren't even a thing - their presence on the free social networks is still weak.

Second, the GOSH initiative is about open hardware in science. Their target audience are not only open source hardware people, but first and foremost scientists who are starting to realize the importance of openness. Again, these people don't even know the free social networks exist.

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand neoliberalism. The ideology is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of macroeconomics most of the ideas will go over a typical voter’s head. There’s also Merkel's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- her personal philosophy draws heavily from Towards A Radical Middle, for instance. Neolibs understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these policies, to realise that they’re not just good ideas - they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Neoliberalism truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Ben Bernanke’s existential catchphrase “If we acted, nobody would thank us. But if we did not act, who would?” which itself is a cryptic reference to Freidman’s epic A Theory of the Consumption Function. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Emmanuel Macron’s genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Ben Bernanke tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably closer) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid.